Homer (disambiguation)
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Homer is the name given to the purported author of the Ancient Greek poems the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Homer can also refer to:
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[edit] People
- Given name
- Homerus of Byzantium (c. 280 BC), grammarian and tragic poet
- Homer Plessy (1863-1925), African-American activist
- Homer Hickam, aerospace engineer whose youth was depicted in the 1999 film October Sky
- Homer Jacobson, scientist
- Homer Ledford, instrument maker and bluegrass musician
- Homer Se, PBA player of the Air21 Express
- Homer Sykes, Canadian-born British photographer
- Homer Watson, Canadian landscape painter from Waterloo, Ontario
- Homer Mensch, classical bassist
- Surname
- Mark Homer, British actor
- Sidney Homer, American composer of "A Plantation Ditty" (lyrics by Frank Lebby Stanton)
- Winslow Homer (1836-1910), American painter
- Fictional people
- Homer Simpson, cartoon character in the television series The Simpsons
- Homer Simpson, fictional character in the 1939 novel The Day of the Locust and its 1975 film adaptation
- Homer Price, fictional character in Homer Price and Centerburg Tales, children's books by Robert McCloskey
- Homer Wells, protagonist of John Irving's novel The Cider House Rules
- Homer, sidekick of Snidely Whiplash
- Homer, a character that appears in the comic strip Non Sequitur.
- Homer Pigeon (1942, anthropomorphic pigeon)
[edit] Places
In the United States:
- Homer, Alaska
- Homer, Georgia
- Homer, Illinois
- Homer, Indiana
- Homer, Kansas
- Homer, Louisiana
- Homer, Michigan
- Homer, Minnesota
- Homer, Nebraska
- Homer (town), New York
- Homer, Ohio
- Homer, Texas
See also: Homer City, Pennsylvania and Homer Township (disambiguation)
In England:
In Space:
- Homer (crater), a crater on Mercury
- 5700 Homerus, an asteroid named after the Greek poet
[edit] Other uses
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- A home run in the sport of baseball
- Homer (unit), a unit of volume
- Homing beacon (also known as a "homer"), a type of tracking transmitter
- Homer, the NATO reporting name for the Soviet Mil Mi-12 helicopter
- A Racing Homer, a type of racing pigeon
- HOMER1, or Homer homolog 1 (Drosophila), a human gene
- Prince Homer, a small truck produced by the Prince Motor Company and later by Nissan
- Homer Wright rosettes, a clinical sign of a type of cancer
[edit] See also
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